Today I’m adding some redundancy to the storage paths in our Hyper-V environment. We have 2 Windows 2008 R2 Server Core host servers running the Hyper-V role attached to an Equal Logic iSCSI SAN. Each host has 3 network cards attached the iSCSI VLAN but only 2 are used for host connections. The third NIC is being used as a Microsoft Virtual Switch Adapter on the iSCSI VLAN for the VM guest operating systems to make direct connections to the SAN and use host invisible storage. NOTE: Host invisible ......

SharePoint sends outgoing email as anonymous SMTP. Under Exchange 2003 this wasn’t much of an issue as all you had to do was allow the SharePoint server IP as an allowed relay under the SMTP virtual server. In Exchange 2007, however it becomes a bit trickier since Exchange 2007 has built-in security to make it more difficult to create open relays. First you have to create a custom receive connector with the IP addresses of your SharePoint front ends listed as allowed relays. Set your authentication ......